Some people enjoy watching their favorite sports teams as they fight it out for the top spot in their respective leagues. While some, like us computer geeks, enjoy hearing about computers duking it out to see who is king among the supercomputers.

In the supercomputer race, twice a year a list is compiled of the top 500 supercomputers around the globe according to the LINPACK Benchmark to see who is tops among computing calculations.

In the November 2009 report, it appears a former computing leader has regained the top spot as the Jaguar Cray Computer at the Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee has regained its crown as the silicon king with 1.759 petaflops operating with 224,162 cores.

Coming in a not so shabby second place and former computing leader, is the Los Alamos, U.S. Department of Energy’s IBM Roadrunner system with a posting of 1.042 petaflops operating at 122,400 cores. Incidentally, Roadrunner posted a slower speed than in June’s Top 500 report of 1.105 petaflops due to a recent repartitioning of its system.

And bringing up third to round out the top three places, is another Cray Computer System from the National Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Named Kraken, this supercomputer operating 98,928 cores posted a max operating speed of 831.70 terraflops.

For a complete list of the Top 500 Supercomputers around the globe be sure to check out Top500.org where you can download the entire November 2009 list in XML or Excel.